At 5:30 p.m. est my blog came back online for about 5 minutes.
Since then (it is now 6:15 p.m. EST)I've been able to load front page of my blog 3 times but -
when I click on categories I can't reach internal pages (I get a blank template)
Also, I can't access dashboard page.

Also, it took almost ten minutes to reach this support forum from Google.
The front page of wordpress.com looks strange - like all the key words are there but not the fancy boxes. it looks like one of the old-fashioned pages.